This is my 300th post on WordPress. I published my first on October 27, 2013, almost exactly two years ago. I started the blog to share my photos of a tour to China with my fellow travellers, and have gone on to show off Prince Edward Island, Toronto, San Francisco, and New York City – among other destinations.

Confederation Trail 19 to 23

Who knows where the wandering will take me from here. I have a stock of digital photos from Japan, Thailand and Peru that you can expect to see in the coming year. I have a photo workshop booked in Havana for February. And I hope to start digitizing slides from earlier years.

Confederation Trail 19 to 23

Confederation Trail 19 to 23

Until then, I’m wandering paths in PEI on the Confederation Trail. (Well, not today – we had snow this morning!)

Thank you to all my followers, to those who comment on my photos, and to those who look at my posts on Facebook. Blessed be.

After a day of rain,and a night of frost, the brilliance of this autumn comes tumbling down to make the wiper well of my car an (extra)ordinary sight.
For more interpretations of WordPress’s photo challenge (extra)ordinary, click the link. Photo taken in Starlite Village, Hanwell, NB, October 17, 2015.

Finding a batch of orange photos for this week’s WordPress Photo Challenge was easy. I keyword my photos in Lightroom, including the keyword for the dominant colour, if there is one, not to mention that orange was one of the categories in the 2014 PEI Photography Club show. You can find more responses to the WP Photo Challenge here. The challenge asked for a gallery of shots – my first! So as not to get carried away, these photos are limited to ones shot in my home province of Prince Edward Island, Canada.

We thought these lamps had been damaged in a storm, until upon closer scrutiny, it appeared that they are supposed to look this way. I would love to see what they look like at night, and what the one lying on the ground is lighting.

Fishing from the dock of the harbour.

This time of year almost all the boat/ship traffic is over, except the Dartmouth ferries and one or two more cruise ships that were due in the first week of November.

The Confederation Trail has markings every kilometre, the occasional bench or picnic table, and purple (!) gates where it crosses major roads (to keep out motorized vehicles.)

Kilometer 19

There are signs of agricultural life everywhere.

Farmland and a conifer tree line.

It used to be common for farmers and others to dump derelict vehicles at the back of their properties. This faded red truck has never been retrieved, though there was an extensive program to recycle vehicles during the last quarter of the last century (gee it seems weird saying that!)

Red Truck.

You don’t want to know what other common practice was evident in the pile on the left of this picture…at Kilometre 17.

These apples are not a sign of agricultural life, so much as a sign of how many apples the train crews must have eaten, throwing the cores out the windows. There are wild apple trees everywhere along all parts of the Confederation Trail.